Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 05:17:10 +1000 | From | Eyal Lebedinsky <> | Subject | Re: bunzip2 -c linux-2.2.10.tar.bz2 | untar -xvp |
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Khimenko Victor wrote: > > In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906161531420.1301-100000@uyema.net> Myles Uyema (myles@puck.nether.net) wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, CaT wrote: > >> There is a patch ont he bzip2 homepage that lets tar use bzip2 when used > >> with the -y switch just like it would use gzip when used with -z. > > > GNU tar 1.12 already uses the -I switch (capital i) for using bzip2 > > compression. Long options are --bzip2 or --bunzip2. > > GNU tar 1.12 DOES NOT uses neither -I switch nor --bzip2 / --bunzip2 ...
Just use the standard filter option: tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf ...
Or put it a /usr/local/bin/bztar or whatever: #!/bin/sh tar --use-compress-program bzip2 $@
But this is really OT.
-- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)
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